#xscreensaver

[adafruit]

HSTX DVI output on Fruit Jam! 🎨🖥️🎶🚀🔌

Woo! This xscreensaver-like demo shows random lines and colors displaying on a mini 7-inch HDMI monitor

it's a 320x240 'pixel doubled' display that is running from the Fruit Jam, an RP2350-based mini computer board

But what's cool is that we're now using the HSTX interface rather than PIO+core bit-banging. That means we now have plenty of extra resources for running the USB host… which is still being worked on.

[clatterbane]

Never mind skull dude, fresh animated horror just dropped!

(No idea what they're calling that, since I do indeed have xscreensaver set to randomly cycle through whatever it's got. Mostly for nostalgia and giggles.)

[rickybabyboy]

my new shape friends i liking them i can liking screens

IDs:

Image 1: An orange and white tabby looking to the left, very focused

Image 2: Two monitors displaying animated 3D gridlike rainbow graphics from xscreensaver

[unusedcactus]

the only virus i'd hope to get because it's just so neat

you can have lichen grow on your DOS installation now?? neat

C:\>lichen.... such a thing to make DOS parse

[yesthatjwz]

"Your personal information is very important to us.", part four. Three months after Google de-listed XScreenSaver from their "Play" [sic] store, the Google "Play" Console Team are now suddenly very concerned about "Android vitals bad behavior for... https://jwz.org/b/ykiQ

[utopicwork]

Last thing for the moment, I got xscreensaver to behave by just not giving it the permissions it suggests and settled on a very on theme one

This is a configurable screensaver that has whales and sharks swim around on screen and honestly? It was worth it

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2024-10-28

Back in the saddle

Listening: Went to a show at DNA Lounge, the nightclub run by James Zawinski of Netscape and Firefox and Xscreensaver fame. Small show, thursday night deal, but pretty good. Main event was I Speak Machine.

Good show! Lots of screechy unnerving sounds, and a really well choreographed stage performance that pairs with replays of the music videos very precisely that was impressive to watch.

Reading: About halfway through The city and the city which is extremely funny in a very dark way. What do you do about border control when two cities exist in the same space, do you simply give up and allow people to mix freely? No, that's insane, you enforce rigid customs and laws to prevent the mixing of two spatially colocated populations from different countries. Duh. I should read more Mieville.

Watching: Watched Solo: A Star Wars Story on the plane mostly to pad out the front half of a flight until my scheduled sleep time. It's not a good movie! Every other line feels like a pick-up mandated by an anxious marketing team who were worried someone might not understand what's going on. Near constantly explaining the blatantly obvious.

Look. Okay. Han Solo can be an interesting guy. He is a scoundrel with a heart of gold which is a great archetype to play. They decide to play this bizarrely.

I cut the weird style some slack. Much like Rogue One, they were trying to see what happens if you make a movie that isn't a samurai movie in the Star Wars universe, in this case this is a sort of war refugee/insurgency/espionage deal. I think that's interesting. The imperial trench warfare raises patently unanswerable questions about the state of the imperial military. Making Han an ex-Imperial soldier could be more interesting if they played into it at all but they don't. Which is stupid. They have Qi'ra taking up with Crimson Dawn which is a great parallel! It writes itself!

In a great example of not trusting the audience the final-ish scene features Qi'ra talking to Darth Maul, the most recognizable motherfucker in the Star Wars Universe and they have him deploy his lightsaber for no fucking reason JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T GET IT IT'S DARTH MAUL YOU KNOW THE GUY FROM PHANTOM MENACE? WITH THE DUAL LIGHTSABER? IT'S THAT GUY. They should have saved some time by providing ushers in the theaters with physical copies of the script so that they could individually beat moviegoers over the head with them.

Playing: Gave my partner a brief tour of the games library while they were hanging out which ended in us playing Drink More Glurp together, which is a fantastic party game, gotta organize that with my friends sometime. If you haven't played Glurp, it's a QWOP-like party game where you play various chopped-and-screwed sports events as aliens with two huge arms and a freespinning body where each stick on a controller controls one arm. Watch this LRR stream to see it in action.

Making: Busy with some printing designs but they are not yet realized. Also I have other things to do including Diwali foods. Technically the timeline is really tight but no one else knows when Diwali is so I can do whatever I want.

Tools and Equipment: A coat with a lot of pockets plus a window seat on a plane means you can use the coat hook on the seat in front of you to stash a large number of readily accessible items in a convenient way without really inconveniencing anyone if you plan this out correctly.

[twansgendew]

Some of the xscreensavers r scary Is mt computer haunted

[spielbrecher]

xscreensaver, moth, reblogger, blurry reblogger

[stevensaus]

It's only been a short while since I wrote daywall, a program that automagically chooses a wallpaper whose brightness is determined by the time of day it is. I've made one tweak to the default brightness values -- it was getting too bright before sunrise for me -- but that's something you can do with tweaking the script itself. I also added a switch to just run daywall, instead of re-checking the images and analyzing new ones on every run. But the big thing I'd overlooked is my screensaver. I use a photo slideshow screensaver. So the problem I'd been having with random wallpapers suddenly hit me in the face with my screensaver images as well. So I hacked together a solution for that as well: daywall_for_xscreensaver.sh. It was a little tougher than anticipated. Xscreensaver (and presumably its distro-specific forks as well) allow you to specify a directory of images to use for the screensaver. It'll check the filenames of all those images when it first starts. And then never check those filenames again. So in order to dynamically change the wallpapers while xscreensaver is running, we have to specify a directory (it's hardcoded in the script) and copy our files over into the same file names. The script not only calls daywall a number of times (9 by default ), but it also makes sure that it pulls nine distinct and separate files. You can find daywall and daywall_for_xscreensaver.sh at GitHub, GitLab, or my personal git repository. Photo by Zhyar Ibrahim on Unsplash https://ideatrash.net/2024/09/getting-xscreensaver-slideshows-to-also-change-brightness-with-the-time-of-day.html?feed_id=339&_unique_id=66dee69c9ec5d

[totheforest]

Tagged by my fav creature @grimdot , I never do tag games haha

My lock screen, last song played, last picture taken, last picture saved, 9 songs on repeat.

Lock screen: This is animated (xscreensaver app) it swirls and looks like you're flying through stars. 10/10 highly recommend the xscreensaver nostalgia.

Last song played: California Here We Go by The Garden

Last picture taken: the woman herself (me)

Last picture saved: yeehaw spaghetti cat

9 songs on repeat:

Horror Head - Sindy

Mask of Sanity - Sindy

New Horse - Slow Pulp

How to be a Woman - Cerce

All Access - The Garden

Incredibly Annoying - Vtss

Patience - Porches

I Couldn't Have Been BoRn At ThE wRoNg TiMe Because I Was Never Even Born LOL! - Fire-Toolz

Fell into the Ocean - Dan Deacon

(I'm def an album listener so these are mostly my picks from the albums I've had in rotation over the last month)

I'll tag some of my cutie mutuals (or cuteuals if u will) even if we haven't talked much or at all ..I see u and I love u, no pressure if you don't like tag games haha: @californiagoddess @mothwinggs @drinkingurmacchiato @rosymoonfaery @strugglebot @ancientdriftwood @icedchaigirllove @rootrat @existentializer

[tknarr]

XScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy

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[monetizeme]

Best privacy policy I've ever read. An excerpt:

"Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never tell you to put glue on pizza, eat rocks, or smoke while pregnant. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never prompt you to call your dead father on Father's Day. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never spy on and harass teenagers. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never become a US military contractor. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never become a foreign military contractor. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never collaborate in genocide. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never fire anyone for protesting genocide. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never partner with fascists. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never donate $250,000 to Donald Trump's inauguration party. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never partner with an authoritarian petrostate. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never participate in eugenics. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never report you to the police for trying to get medical care. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never report you to the police for riding a bicycle. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never profit from directing you to misinformation sites about abortion. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never exfiltrate and monetize your private health records. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never collect the user data of children without their parents' consent. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never use everything you've ever posted for "AI" training, regardless of your copyright. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never bake a user-tracking advertising platform directly into a web browser. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never turn a web browser into a persistent threat to privacy and democracy. Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never keep car crash data secret because it's better for business if competitors' robots kill more people."

[hackernewsrobot]

XScreenSaver is available on Android. Google requires a privacy policy

https://chaos.social/@scy/112591102162587559